Summary:
ZIP code 40213 has three high schools, all in Jefferson County: Louisville Male High and Mary Ryan Academy serve grades 9–12, while W.E.B. DuBois Academy serves grades 6–12. Enrollment varies widely, from 16 students at Ryan to 1,763 at Male. The most important academic finding is that Male’s 2025–2026 high-school results range from 17% proficient in grade 11 science to 54% in writing; DuBois has some suppressed high-school results and Ryan’s are suppressed across all six subjects, so a complete school-to-school academic ranking is not possible.
Male stands out for writing: 54% proficient, 7 percentage points above the state and 22 above the district; its graduation rate was 97%, compared with 94% statewide and 89% in the district. Ryan stands out for chronic absenteeism, at 61%—versus 29% at Male, 32% at DuBois, 32% in the district and 24% statewide. DuBois shows a mixed middle-grade picture: grade 8 social studies was 35%, above the district’s 30% but below the state’s 39%, while grade 7 math was 16%, compared with 28% in the district and 39% statewide.
Male’s results declined in all six displayed subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, including a 16-point drop in social studies and a 6-point drop in writing, though writing remained above the state. Its six-result average moved from 45% versus 39% statewide to 38% versus 39%; the school–state gap shifted by 8 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking for Male also fell from the 85th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 46th in 2025–2026; DuBois is at the 20th percentile, while Ryan’s 6th-percentile ranking is from 2017–2018. As context, 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 46% at Male, 62% at DuBois and 88% at Ryan, and student-teacher ratios were 19.1, 12.7 and 3.1, respectively; these figures describe different school settings, not explanations for results.
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